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To the Memory of the right Honourable, Sir John Nisbet of Dirletoun

His Majesties Advocat, and one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice; who departed this Life at Edinburgh, April 9. 1688. A Funeral Elegie [by Ninian Paterson]

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Indemnis proprium servat sapientia censum,
nec gula quæsitas laxa vorabit opes.
Tanquam, jam partis moritu us utere rebus.
tanquam victurus, denuo parce tuis.
N. Paterson.